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Re: Why didn't setq work here?
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rusi |
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Re: Why didn't setq work here? |
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Thu, 6 Jan 2011 19:50:56 -0800 (PST) |
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On Jan 7, 7:05 am, Eric Lilja <mindcoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm running "GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of
> 2011-01-03 on 3249CTO" (a build provided by Mr Sean Sieger) under
> Windows 7 x64.
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> I don't really know how to configure emacs so please excuse any
> stupidity found below and improper use terminology.
Newbies cant be oldbies and are welcome!
> I noticed straight away that the minor mode auto-fill-mode had not been
> turned on.
> Now auto-fill-mode is indeed turned on and I don't get a warning by the
> byte compiler when I set fill column. Ok, so I am happy. Problem solved! :)
>
> But here's my question: Why didn't setq work as I thought it would? By
> not work I meant I the minor mode auto-fill-mode was not turned on and
> even though the fill column was set as I desired, the statement produced
> a warning as I showed above.
This is a standard newbie error see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp-1_vs._Lisp-2#The_function_namespace.
[Only addition to above is: elisp follows (somewhat buggily) the
common lisp model]